Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-09-01
All THERE. OYSTER.

The Season of the Sueculent -Biyaive
Returns with september--The Res
tauranteurs Preparing for the WIN
ter Campaign--Howth the Young Mans
Pocket Book will suffer.
An oyster is somewhat analogous to the
famous ALTERATION of one DR.. Burchard,
in that It reminds one that there is such a
letter as ''r" in the alphabet. The oyster
shuns the months without an IT.. and
that is the reason be has been unheard of
for the past four months.
1--WE will be ready to serve our pa
irons in the oyster hne in day or two. :"
SAID the proprietor of Second avenue
restaurant this morning. zine ice cream
trade is waning fast, and we will have to
fall back on the oyster. A young man
and his best girl were in here last night
for stew. and look of great disap-
pointment passed over the young lady S
face. when informed them that VIC were
hardly ready to serve them yet. But, don't
you know, | think the young man was
rather pleased, for he smiled. and said
they d call again.
Autumn would lose half its glories if
it wasn't for the oyster. 1t is pensive
aud melancholy season at best, the fore
runner of dismal winter, and as We
look back upon the golden summer that
has past, We metaphorically kick our
selves either because we have taken
no vacation, or that we took ii
vacation and came home in Il
state Of romantic poverty We look
forward to laying in our winters supply
of coal, aud We blow large signs OF re-
gret that summer could not finger with
US The poets have ever found autumn
sad and d0lorous season. What could
be more suggestive of meancho oily train
Of thought than seeing "a poet standing
III tIG uODt why VI ito DpaidtlS HOucS
gazing at the sere and somber sky, the
witheFed, fading flowers, lost in rapt
meditation, wondering if his overeoai
may yet be redeemed and contrasting his
shruuken purse with the necessity that
he purchase some winter underclothes
1t is not strange that autumn makes US
feel sad, but nature does business OF
systematic principles, and experience ha
shown that summer does more or les
waning about this time every year. Yet
in all this melancholy the law of compen
Sation ordains that there shall be SOM
relief of gladness 1t Is true that we lost
the flowers and the watermelon. tn
summer birdiings and the summe
squash, but then we have the oyster
The swallows homeward flv, but the BIZ
valve comes back to US with renewe'
youth and beauty and continues to d
business at the old stand
Yes; the oyster season is at hand. Th
line of demarkation between summer ant
autumn Is marked in many ways-ln th
change of the slim youth from his law
tennis uniform to his bicycle suit; 10 tn
calling in of the straw hats; 10 the failin
influence of the batfied ice man; in tn
growing insoence of the coal dealin
inagnate. But there Is one pre>eminentl
striking symbol Of the chang
of the season the disappear
auce of the legend, 'Ice Creai
10 cents per Plate and the appearance
of the device, Oysters in Every Style
A young man with a girl has a respons
bic duty To perform. He must keep BIZ
provided with ice cream in summer an
he must see to it that, when the Ie
blasts of winter begin their annual sta
ring tour she pineth not in vain for tt
slippery and taciturn bivalve No
girls like both ice cream and oysters, b.
there are a few girls who refrain fro
eating one or the other If young ma
has girl who does not eat ice cream
summer is season of supernal beauty
him. Ii he has a girl who does not e
oysters, he finds winter a Joyous periC
and all too short to be thoroughly d.
lightful. Once there was a girl wi
liked neither oysters nor ice cream but tt
angels took her